rekall: (Vassalord - Rayflo)
Rekall ([personal profile] rekall) wrote2009-01-04 08:34 pm

Video games

It seems like everyone in NA is wanting to play WoW tonight. *is currently stuck in a 450 person queue to log on*

While I wait, I thought I'd give some early opinions of Persona 4. I'm only about 7hrs in but whatever. No spoilers (I doubt I'm in far enough to give away spoilers anyway).

Good
- So far no one as annoying as Stupei and Yukari from Persona 3. Granted they both took a while to really get on my nerves so I might start hating someone here too but so far so good.

- The change in setting. I'm glad it's not another city and you attend the best school there. I like the fact that it's a small town in the middle of nowhere at a crappy school. It's a good change of pace from the last game.

- I like that they came up with a way for Shadows to be in the game without the Dark Hour returning. You worked so hard to get rid of the Dark Hour in the last game I would be sorta pissed if it was back (Retcon is annoying).

- I get the impression that Chie and Yukiko are suppose to be lesbians.

Bad
- It takes almost 4hrs to get to the point where you have free control over what the main character does. Persona 3 wasn't nearly that long: the full moon was the night after you arrived at the dorm, you're then in the hospital for a week and then tada, you can do what you want. Persona 4 however takes forever.

- You can only get the weather report a week in advanced so it makes it harder planning on when you're going to go inside the TV (you only have until it rains the next time to complete your missions). It's a lot easier in Persona 3 where you get a calendar that tells you when each full moon is.

- Less time to get things done. In Persona 3 you could do something in the afternoon (Social Links, etc) and still go into the Dark Hour at night. Here you go into the TV during the afternoon and at night there's nothing to do. When you try to go out at night, it says you can't. So there's a lot less time to work up your levels, your Social Links and your skills.

Despite the 'bad' stuff, I am enjoying the game. It's definitely a good game, it's just that Persona 3 was better (Although the main character in P4 has way better taste in clothing than the main character of P3; in P3 whenever he wore his normal clothes I always wanted to give him a make-over).

[identity profile] bnomiko.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Get used to the queues... almost all the older servers are heavily backlogged and lagging. On one hand it's good because then the server has an active, full population, and on the other hand, dying because you have 10 healers trying to heal you with a 20 second lag spike... yeah...

[identity profile] rekallthegreat.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
I find the queue isn't too bad most of the time. During my normal playing hours there's no queue at all (yay for odd hours of playtime!). Leveling can be a pain with so many people around all trying to do the same thing.

[identity profile] bnomiko.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
LOL, was gonna say, you must play during off hours then. I used to log in hours early just to avoid the queue... nothing like sitting out of a raid because you couldn't get logged on fast enough : /

[identity profile] rekallthegreat.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe, I love playing during off hours. No queue, fewer people around to compete with for quests/herbs/mines, easier to get good deals on the AH, etc.

[identity profile] kryptyd.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, you didn't like Junpei? I thought he was annoying at the very start but grew to love him really quickly.

[identity profile] rekallthegreat.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
I liked him up to the point where he got really jealous of the main character. I remember him making some really stupid decisions because of that jealousy, which drove me crazy.

Plus he's voiced by a homophobic asshole. That's a big part of why I don't like Junpei. I got reminded of it every time Junpei spoke.

[identity profile] baranohanayome.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, Yukari. She spent way too much of the game being an annoying twit, and had a tendency to whine. Good to hear there isn't going to be a Yukari 2.0 in P4.

...Wait, what do you mean you can't do anything at night? Are there really towns that small left in the world outside of bumfuck Alabama? D=

[identity profile] rekallthegreat.livejournal.com 2009-01-06 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I *think* you can eventually go out at night to your part time job but I'm not that far along (my part time job is at a daycare so it doesn't involve the night).

There's also a serial killer going around so I think that's one of the reasons why you're not allowed out at night (you live with the detective in charge of the case).

I did find someone annoying but she's part of the Drama club so you're not forced to spend time with her (and I think you don't even meet her at all if you join the music club instead).